Math Forum: ESCOT Workshop 2001 Agenda

ESCOT Team Workshop
August 15 - 17, 2001
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA

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Agenda

Goals: celebrate a job well done at the end of the grant cycle, reflect on the experience, and make recommendations for future work that will stem from ESCOT.

[Wednesday] [Thursday] [Friday] [Notes] [Attendees] [Daily Summaries]

Wednesday
9:00-9:30	Welcome, introduce agenda
9:30-10:30	Possible Futures of ESCOT	Jeremy & Chris
10:30-10:45	Break
10:45-12:00	Group discussion: Revisiting EPoW breakout groups
12:00-1:30	Catered lunch, Ashton House
1:30-3:30	Revisiting EPoW breakout groups
3:30-4:00	Break
4:00-5:15	Evaluation: Student Learning	Ann & Eric
5:00-6:00	Free time
6:00-7:30	Catered dinner, Ashton House

Thursday
8:30-9:00	Connections	Jody
9:00-10:00	Evaluation: Integration Teams	Wes
10:00-10:45	Agentsheets: How has ESCOT affected it?	Alex
10:45:11:00	Break
11:00-12:00	Curriculum opportunities	Jim Kaput & Jeremy
12:00-1:30	Catered lunch, Ashton House
1:30-2:15	Evaluation: Applet evaluation	Jody, Chris, Hollylynne
2:15-2:30	Break
2:30-5:00	Revisiting EPoW breakout groups [Simultaneously: Reflection focus groups]	[Wes Shumar]
5:00-6:30	Free time
6:30-8:30	Dinner: John Harvard’s

Friday
9:00-10:15	Reflection reports
10:15-10:30	Break
10:30-12:00	Revisiting EPoW breakout group reports
12:00-1:30	Catered lunch, Ashton House [Simultaneous Research breakout]	[Ann]
1:30-2:30	Retrospective	Jeremy
Until 3 or 4	Informal

Notes
Revisiting EPoW breakout groups
How we can wrap up our work in the most useful forms, leaving an ESCOT legacy?

parameterizing our applets, making them more generally useful, perhaps downloadable or CDs

extending the ESCOT website by highlighting a few applets and generative activities

make recommendations on how to incorporate these applets and problems into real classrooms and the curriculum, link to Standards, review teacher pages

review applets, find out relative merits of the different PoWs, make suggestions for future versions

looking at why the ePoWs were not used in the classrooms

Evaluation topics:

Ann: student learning and some use
Wes: integration teams
Jody, Chris, Hollylynne: epow evaluation

EPoW Evaluation

methods: coding with inter-rater reliability
surveying all year 1 and year 2 EPoWs
looking for measures that differentiate between EPoWs or are consistent across them
compare results against student data
anticipated results: the importance of certain measures and their implications on problem-solving and learning
we're looking for feedback on our analysis

Reflection breakout groups

homogeneous groups of teachers, developers, ed techs

One of the goals is to present (10-15 minutes): what the experience was for people in your group, including problems and recommendations for future such teams. If this wasn’t covered in the focus group, also address: What would make it attractive for people like you to be part of integration teams in the future?

Hollylynne and Steve Ackley phone in if possible

Other topics:

Possible future pictures (Jeremy and Chris, 1 hr.): Shelly Goldman collaboration for curriculum development, TRAILS

Alex: How Agentsheets has changed as a result of ESCOT

Jim and Jeremy: Curriculum opportunities. Group discussion about how we imagine we can best work with these. Proposal: how teachers might be involved...

Ann: small research breakout over lunch for those interested — how to grow ESCOT as a research project

Jeremy: Retrospective

Other notes:

Someone should bring a frisbee. The field we used last year has been plowed over, but we should be able to find another spot.

Internet connections. There will probably be connections for personal computers. There are computers in the labs, on the order of 5 connected computers in the room we'll be in, same room as last year, and 5 in the other lab.

Need html editor.